# WaiV Robotics: company

Canonical ID: `6c1f659a-7155-46f4-9a10-f0ce4c1cb4a9`

## Key facts

- **Funding:** $7.5M Seed
- **CEO:** Johnny Carni
- **Seed funding:** .5M (2026)
- **Product:** Autonomous VTOL drone landing platform
- **UAV capacity:** Up to 15kg (planned: 3-300kg)

- **Slug:** waiv-robotics
- **HQ:** London, UK
- **Funding total (USD):** 7500000

## Models

- [WaiV Autonomous VTOL Landing Platform](/models/waiv-landing-platform.md) (aerial) (id: `a435909e-0001-4013-9c30-ac6d03098d63`)

## Current leadership (1)

- [Johnny Carni](/people/johnny-carni.md) Founder & CEO (_reported, not verified_)

## Founders (1)

- [Johnny Carni](/people/johnny-carni.md) (cofounder)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Sources (1)

1. https://dronelife.com/2026/06/15/waiv-robotics-brings-autonomous-drone-recovery-at-sea-to-u-s-offshore-operators/

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